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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: ::Project CETI This is what it sounds like when sperm whales communicate. Those bursts of clicking noises are called codas.

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(CNN) — Scientists have accomplished a whale of a feat. They’ve identified previously unknown complexity in whale communication by analyzing thousands of recorded sequences of sperm whale clicks with ...

Using machine learning, MIT CSAIL, and Project CETI, researchers revealed complex, language-like structures in sperm whale communication with context-sensitive and combinatorial elements. Credit: ...

In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

Not too many years after I conquered the memorization of the alphabet — and no, it wasn’t in the sixth grade — I was forced to learn a different version. I am referring here to a phonetic alphabet.

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